Author Profile 6

Lynne Reid Banks is a best-selling author for children and adults. Her classic children’s novel, The Indian in the Cupboard, has sold over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a highly successful feature film. She was born in London in 1929 and was an actress in the early 1950’s; later she became one of the first women TV news reporters in Britain. Lynne has now written forty books – her first, The L-Shaped Room, was published in 1960. She lives with her husband in Dorset, England.
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